Abstract
This paper analyzes Aeschylus' play, "The Eumenides." It specifically focuses on Orestes' trial. It looks at the two parties involved in his trial and the misleading notions in Apollo's speech. The paper also discusses modern society's notion of there being a greater burden on motherhood than fatherhood and how this notion relates to "The Eumenides."

From the Paper
"Many view Aeschylus' trilogy as a work of patriarchal sexism, designed to further deteriorate the importance of female roles in society. Aeschylus uses Orestes' trial to belittle motherhood as it is juxtaposed to fatherhood. Although logical and warranted on the surface, Apollo's arguments can be easily destructed once it is analyzed in fragments, for deeper examinations. The relationships between human children and their mothers are incomparable to that of human children and their fathers. Not only do all mothers contribute an equal share of biological genes to their infants, they also carry and nourish their babies for nine months, during which they are the sole individuals dictating the fate of their newborns. Finally, the example of Athena's birth is extraneous to the trial, as is Orestes' potential contribution to the future of Athens. Thus, if Aeschylus truly intended to advance the depreciation of women in society, he did this under a prejudiced court without substantial evidence of proof as to why fatherhood is more significant than motherhood."

Tags:patriarchal, relationships, society

Abstract
This paper covers the idea that America was not crippled by the attacks of September 11, 2001, and that such attacks will never accomplish the intended goals. It discusses America's propensity to bounce back after 9/11, from the average citizen up to presidential levels, and the response that ensued. Discredits the claim that such attacks have harmed America or the economy.

From the Paper
"Cowardly acts of terrorism will never be enough to destroy the American way of life. As President George W. Bush told the country after the September 11 attacks, "Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America." In fact, if anything, these acts and others have only served to strengthen and reinforce American ideals, thus bringing the country closer together rather than tearing us apart. Americans should not fear that terrorism will cripple the country or destroy the way of life we enjoy."

Tags:america, bin, center, iraq, jihad, laden, new, osama, terrorism, trade, world, york

Abstract
The paper examines Ulrich Bonnell Phillips' "American Negro Slavery",
Stanley M. Elkins' "Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life", John W. Blassingame's "The Slave Community" and Nell Irvin Painter's "Soul Murder and Slavery". The paper critically analyzes these works and totally discredits Phillips' work while highlighting the strengths and weaknesses in Elkins' and Painter's works. The paper concludes that Blassingame's work seems to be the most interesting, well-researched and factual account of slave life.

From the Paper
"The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic of American slavery. Specifically it will contain a historiography on four works written by four different authors. Each of these works depicts a time and place in the history of American slavery, and each makes unique and valid points regarding this "peculiar" institution. Each of them uses strong research and writing to make their points, but their points differ greatly and indicate how different people can view the diverse aspects of slavery in far different ways. In the end, John W. Blassingame's work seems to be the most interesting, well-researched, and factual account of slave life, it creates a balanced view of the community of slaves and how important that community was to their overall survival."

Tags:plantations, sambo, myth, blacks

Abstract
This paper examines how, in contrast to feminist protagonists that preceded her in literature, the heroine of Margaret Drabbles "The Millstone" comes to embody an intellectual and physical form of feminine competence in society. It looks at how, ultimately, Rosamund's pregnancy does not prove a hindrance to her work and how she discredits female stereotypes related to pregnancy through her simultaneous embodiment of maternity and intellectual development. It also shows how her work gives her societal approval at the same time she is receiving physical and sexual satisfaction from her role as a mother and a sexual being.

From the Paper
"However, after weathering graduation and assuming graduate study, Rosamund becomes pregnant. Now, as the result of what was casual action, resulting partly because she was treating her body "like a man" woman, how can Rosamund still achieve feminine competence in a society that denies this concept? How can Rosamund liberate one's self from such constructed notions of the female self, as they are attached to the female body, particularly if one possesses a body deemed to be female in this society and achieve a sense of social and personal competence? Also, what occurs when a body enters into a state of maternity? How can a mother be competent?"

Tags:pregnancy, female, stereotypes, sexuality

Abstract
This paper examines how, in contrast to feminist protagonists that preceded her in literature, the heroine of Margaret Drabble's "The Millstone" comes to embody an intellectual and physical form of feminine competence in society. It looks at how, ultimately, Rosamund's pregnancy does not prove a hindrance to her work and how she discredits female stereotypes related to pregnancy through her simultaneous embodiment of maternity and intellectual development. It shows how Drabble incarnates Rosamund as a completely emancipated woman, a paradigm of the new generation, and embodies her own ideal conception of the modern woman, a woman complete in mind and body.

From the Paper
"Drabble perhaps deliberately begins with her protagonist in a world where illegitimate birth is a stigma, even to those who do not flout the conventions of normal female intellectual development, such as Rosamund. Rosamund's attitude towards her own physicality is similar to Sue Brideshead or the Early Modern idea of femininity as being an either or proposition for women "as a kind of modification of the angel of the hearth" Victorian ideal, women were constructed in such an idea as being either of the flesh, or of aspiring in an asexual fashion to a male consciousness."

Tags:rosamund, victorian, england, femininity

Abstract
The author of this paper presents the arguments put forward by Julian Barnes' in his book "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters" and Margaret Atwood's, "A Handmaid's Tale" that offer different modes of deconstructing the "Genesis" as a grand narrative. The paper also explains how Barnes rejects the lineal view of history and provides a cyclical explanation of events all along human times.

From the Paper
"From the times of the Hebrew on, the Bible has been considered the sacred scripture that provides the founding pillars for the Christian dogma all throughout history. Yet, troughs the passing of years, there have been two distinct approximations to that sacred text. On the one hand, there has been the orthodox approximation, that of the believer who attributes the biblical origin to the Holy Spirit; and, on the other hand, there exists the intellectual approach, that of the scholar who considers the Bible as an anthology of primary books from various authors and periods. In the past and even in the present postmodern times then, the biblical text has served as source of information not only about religion but also about history, sociology, politics and literature, among other fields."

Tags:text, origin, anthology

Abstract
The paper contends that large corporations utilize strategies of censorship, propaganda and globalization that alienates the populace and destroys people's faith in being governed. The paper explains that this is in order to restructure a supra-capitalist, technocratic society. The paper shows the difference between censorship and propaganda and discusses how globalization can cause a level of propaganda that leads people to believe that censorship is what they want and need.

From the Paper
"What is the difference between censorship and propaganda? "Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos" (Bernays 168) . Censorship is the "suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method--including bias, omission, underreporting or censorship--that prevents the public from understanding what is happening in society" (Jensen 419) . Webster is more to the point. A censor is one "who reads communications and deletes forbidden material" (Webster 135) . Since there are many different kinds of information or knowledge in society that need to be forbidden because they are harmful to certain groups (i.e., the use of drugs, pornography, assault weapons), what rationale legitimizes suppressed information as forbidden and therefore potentially harmful? The rationale is "to bring order out of chaos" by the instrument of propaganda: "the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the masses" (Bernays 37)."

Tags:technocracy, capitalism, Bush, administration, oil, wiretapping

Abstract
This paper explains that people who report the crime of rape to the authorities are attacked very often because of rape myths. The author points out that rape myths permeate society with their age old rhetoric and transform large scale false beliefs. The paper stresses that rape myths give perpetrators the ability to justify their actions and, at the same time, they discredit the real victims who wish to seek justice. The author underscores that there are numerous rape myths, but the most common ones, which the author examines in detail, are 'you can't rape the willing', 'men are at danger of being falsely accused of rape', 'some categories of forced sex are not really rape' and, the most famous one of all, 'no can mean yes'.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Impossible to Rape an Unwilling Woman
Women Secretly Want to be Raped
Women Cry Rape
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Metaphorically speaking, the penis was deemed a weapon and the vagina as a submissive holder for it. The saying implicates that by merely 'vibrating', this holder could fend off the attack. In the words of Michael Ryan, one of the most prominent jurists in the 1830s, it was 'almost impossible' to rape a resisting woman. Children who had claimed that they were raped had to do so very carefully, many at the time considered the rape of a child impossible! John Leeson, who was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, was one of the professionals who had claimed this."

Tags:macho, statistics, rhetoric, discredit

Abstract
This paper identifies and discusses the various aspects of Erving Goffman's model of face-to-face communication, including impression management, discrediting information and group interaction or 'performance team'. The paper investigates these concepts and others as well as the concepts guiding the paper to the ultimate question of 'where or what is the real self?' The paper, considering Goffman's thoughts, attempts to answer this question.

From the Paper
"For centuries philosophers have attempted to explain human face-to-face interaction. It is the human's desire for the fundamental answers of existence that explain this fact. Erving Goffman, a 20th Century sociologist, essentially found face-to-face communication to be a series of dramatic performances, not dissimilar to the performance of an actor or actress in a production. Thus, Goffman's 'dramaturgical' account of face-to-face communication was born. There are several aspects to Goffman's model of communication. Firstly, impression management is an important facet to investigate. Secondly, the relationship between revealing discrediting information and tactful blindness shown by the recipient is an interesting concept. "

Tags:impression, management, discrediting, information, tactful, blindness, performance, team

Abstract
The author evaluates the use of anti-depressants, and analyzes the patient's experience using Goffman's classic social psychology theory of 'Stigma'. Included are discussions of the concepts of moral career, information management versus interaction management, and discreditable versus discrediting stigmas.

From the Paper
"Despite the recent popularity of drugs such as Prozac and Paxil, depression and the use of antidepressants are stigmatized in American society. In this paper I will show how a college student, whom I will call Amanda, has been stigmatized for this reason. I will use concepts of personal identity and interaction from Erving Goffman's Stigma to elucidate the workings of stigma in this case."

Tags:career, discrimination, erving, goffman, information, interaction, management, moral, paxil, prozac, psychology, self, social, society